Arson

Suspected Jewish assailants set fire to a West Bank home on Friday and burned a sleeping Palestinian toddler to death in an attack that drew Palestinian rage and widespread Israeli condemnation. The attack, which threatens to set off another violent escalation, shines a light on the growing lawlessness of extremist Jewish settlers that Israel is either unable or unwilling to contain. The extremists have for years staged attacks against Palestinian property, as well as mosques, churches, dovish Israeli groups and even Israeli military bases. The attacks, known as "price tags" because they exact a price for Israeli steps seen as favorable to the Palestinians, have stirred fear in...

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Editor's note: Reporter Sarah J. Ketchum is participating in an academy hosted by the Newport News Fire Department and writing about her experience.
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Suspected Jewish assailants set fire to a West Bank home on Friday and burned a sleeping Palestinian toddler to death in an attack that drew Palestinian rage and widespread Israeli condemnation. The attack, which threatens to set off another violent...

Suspected Jewish assailants set fire to a West Bank home on Friday and burned a sleeping Palestinian toddler to death in an attack that drew Palestinian rage and widespread Israeli condemnation. The attack, which threatens to set off another violent...

RAMALLAH, West Bank Jewish extremists are suspected in an arson attack that killed a Palestinian child and severely injured other members of the family early Friday in a village on the northern West Bank. Graffiti in Hebrew, including the word...

Israeli bulldozers began demolishing a contested housing complex in a West Bank settlement on Wednesday as the prime minister's office announced the "immediate construction" of some 300 new units at another location in the same settlement and...

A woman accused of using fireworks to burn down her Windham home for insurance has received a fully suspended prison sentence. The Day of New London reports (http://bit.ly/1MtnTZE) 48-year-old Julie Amero-Volle pleaded no contest to third-degree arson and...

A northern Indiana woman was arrested Tuesday on charges alleging that she caused a house explosion by partially filling the home with gas during a suicide attempt. Michelle Ellenberger, 51, of Granger, is charged with three felony counts of arson...

The latest on the shooting at a Lafayette, Louisiana, movie theater (times are local): 6:30 p.m. Gov. Bobby Jindal said "now is not the time" to discuss gun control, despite repeated questions Friday outside the movie theater where a...

Police have arrested a man on charges that he paid his brother to set fire to his northeastern Pennsylvania home as part of an insurance scam. The brother was burned setting the fire and died. Fifty-seven-year-old Diomedes Ceballos of Scranton is facing...

A Missouri woman who admitted scheming and setting a string of arson fires with her ex-husband to bilk hundreds of thousands of dollars from insurers was sentenced Thursday to eight years in federal prison for her role in a 2001 blaze that killed their...

Authorities say a 12-year-old Kankakee boy is charged with arson in a fire at a Family Dollar store earlier this month. The (Kankakee) Daily-Journal reports (http://bit.ly/1JgWg50 ) that the boy was charged after investigators saw surveillance video...

A former Edwardsville police dispatcher has been found guilty of helping a detective whom she dated hide evidence from a string of burglaries he's accused of committing while on the job. A Madison County judge ruled Tuesday that 41-year-old Keri Knight...

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